you mentioned earlier that you had gotten compile warnings. You
shouldn't be getting any, at least I dont.
I suggest recompiling -- and trying from square 1, after making
sure you have the asoundrc file from the emacspeak directory
copied over to $HOME/.asoundrc
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert D Crawford <rdc1x@comcast.net> writes:
Robert> "T. V. Raman" <raman@users.sf.net> writes:
>> make sure ldconfig has set things up so your shared libs
>> can be found. This is not an emacspeak or viavoice
>> specific thing; do a man ldconfig to learn about shared
>> libs.
Robert>
Robert> Forgot about this one. linking the lib to one of the
Robert> directories used by ldconfig did the trick for this
Robert> problem.
Robert>
Robert> I also copied the eci.ini file from the /var/opt
Robert> subdirectory to the linux-outloud directory as per
Robert> instructions.
Robert>
Robert> Now to the next problem.
Robert>
Robert> I was able to go back and read the thread concerning
Robert> this error message:
Robert>
Robert> atcleci.cpp size_t alsa_configure Assertion `err >=
Robert> 0' failed., returned 0 Items
Robert>
Robert> and think I understand a little about what was said
Robert> in the thread. I would assume that things should
Robert> work for these reasons:
Robert>
Robert> 1. I am running the current cvs version. It seems
Robert> that the problem was fixed according to the thread.
Robert>
Robert> 2. I am using a Thinkpad T40, In the top of the
Robert> .asoundrc file there is a line reading:
Robert>
Robert> # I82801DBICH4 [Intel 82801DB-ICH4] (IBM Thinkpads)
Robert>
Robert> and the output from aplay -v has this line:
Robert>
Robert> Hardware PCM card 0 'Intel 82801DB-ICH4' device 0
Robert> subdevice 0
Robert>
Robert> therefore, based on this, it should work.
Robert>
Robert> In reading the thread, I did not understand much more
Robert> than this. I understand that this error comes up if
Robert> there are bad settings in the .asoundrc file, but I
Robert> don't really want to go mucking about in the file if
Robert> I do not know what I should be changing.
Robert>
Robert> I ran the alsaparams program and got this back:
Robert>
Robert> Card Parameters Alsa Library Version: 1.0.11 Access
Robert> Method: RW_INTERLEAVED Format: S16_LE Channels: 1
Robert> Rate: 44100 bps Period Time: 23219 us Period Size:
Robert> 1024 frames Buffer Time: 92879 us Buffer Size: 4096
Robert> frames Periods per Buffer: 4 frames Exact Rate:
Robert> 44100/1 bps Significant Bits: 16 Tick Time: 0 Card
Robert> Capabilities Batch Transfer: No Block Transfer: Yes
Robert> Double Buffering: No Half Duplex Only: No Joint
Robert> Duplex Capable: No Support Overrange Detection: No
Robert> Support Sample-res Mmap: No Can Pause: No Can Resume:
Robert> Yes Support Sync Start: No
Robert>
Robert> If there are parts of the alsa docs that outline what
Robert> I need to change, pointers are always welcome. I
Robert> read:
Robert>
Robert> http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/asoundrc.php?company=Generic&card=Generic&chip=Generic&module=Generic
Robert>
Robert> but it did not seem to help me to understand.
Robert>
Robert> Thanks again for all the help,
Robert>
Robert> rdc
Robert>
Robert> --
Robert> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Robert> Robert D. Crawford rdc1x@comcast.net
Robert>
Robert>
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